Erlang is a concurrent, functional programming language designed for programming large industrial real-time systems. The language is untyped and has a pattern matching syntax. Functions are written as a set of recursion equations and the language has explicit concurrency and asynchronous message passing. Written in a tutorial style, this book emphasizes learning through example, illustrating a number of problems in designing and programming concurrent fault-tolerant real-time systems. This edition features new chapters on distributed programming, distributed programming techniques and distributed data.

Table of Contents

Preface. I Programming1. An ERLANG Tutorial2. Sequential Programming. 3. Programming with Lists. 4. Programming with Tuples. 5. Concurrent Programming. 6. Distributed Programming. 7. Error Handling. 8. Programming Robust Applications. 9. Miscellaneous Items. II Applications10. Databases. 11. Distributed Programming Techniques. 12. Distributed Data. 13. Operating Systems. 14. Real Time Control. 15. Telephony. 16. An ASN l Compiler: 17. Graphics. 18. Object-Oriented Programming.